I am recruiting a #postdoc to work on assembling and analyzing #genomes of the amazing Furnariidae. Let’s unlock the secret behind their #evolution. The official application portal will be available soon at www.uno.edu/careers. Feel free to contact me for details at [email protected]

Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

Honored to have one of my photos on the cover of @nature.com And thrilled to be part of this #ForestGEO study led by Yuanzhi Li and Chengjin Chu 🌴 🌳 🌐 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Photo caption: Sunrise over a tropical forest near Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia

🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Plant Resilience and #Conservation for a Changing Climate.” 🌱 Phenotypic & genetic bases of variable #drought stress response in a widely adapted allotetraploid species By Wen-Hsi Kuo, Linda Small & Kenneth Olsen doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #climatechange

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Many thanks to Xugao Wang, Zikun Mao and their research team for a wonderful visit to the Institute of Applied Ecology, Research Station of Changbai Mountain Forest Ecosystems, and Changbaishan Chinese Forest Biodiversity Network (CForBio) & Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) site 🌲 🌐

We are hiring an Associate Director of UC Riverside Natural Reserve System. Come join us! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02257

📈Mohamed Salah joins Steven Gerrard with the most goals in a Merseyside Derby in the Premier League (9) Legend

New study led by Sean McHugh (@phyllurus.bsky.social) now out in @systbiol.bsky.social! Sean's approach models how species gain and lose biome affinities over time, both in terms of where they *do* live (e.g. movement) and where they *could* live (e.g. adaptation) doi.org/10.1093/sysb...

Happy to share our new paper—led by Ethan Abercrombie in collaboration with Adam Smith @earthskysea.bsky.social and Lyle Usdin @washu.edu—exploring responses of small-mammal communities to a century of climate change in the Sierra Nevada mountains 🏔️ 🐿️ doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

📣 Grad student wanted PhD position in avian evolution, with emphasis on phylogenetics, macroevolution, Neotropical radiations, flight and dispersal. Based at the University of New Orleans (soon to be LSU New Orleans). Start: September 2026. Contact me if interested. claramuntlab.org

Happy to share this paper from the Madidi Metabolomics Project, led by Sierra Chadwick & Brian Sedio, and made possible by the Madidi Project, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social and WashU @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 🌴 ⛰️ doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Year 14 of seed-trap collections complete! 🌳 Tyson Research Center ForestGEO Plot #ForestEcology #ForestGEO #SeedDispersal #TysonResearchCenter

We are coming up on the closing date for an Assistant Professor of Mycology/Plant-fungal Interactions in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois - apply before November 1st! See the link below for more details: www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Bumping this up one last time. I'm looking to hire graduate student(s) to work on an NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts among dragonflies here in Colorado. @cudenverclas.bsky.social 🧪🌍🐙 Applications will be considered until Nov 1. See post below for more details

Gaps in the groundcover plant community from burning trees - Longleaf Pine Ecosystem, The Jones Center at Ichauway, Georgia 🔥 🌱 #FireEcology #LongleafPineEcosystem #PrescribedFire

Enjoyed a wonderful visit to the longleaf pine ecosystem at The Jones Center at Ichauway. Many thanks to David Mason for hosting me, @jefferybcannon.bsky.social for a tour of the Ichauway Forest Dynamics Plot & ForestGEO site, and The Jones Center community for a great seminar visit. 🔥 🌱 🌼

Apply to become the next MSU EEB Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow! These are two year positions with research stipend, working with 2+ MSU EEB faculty. Applications due 10 November 2025. More here: eeb.msu.edu/initiatives/...

Reposting this open postdoc position with more detailed specifications. Couldn't find the right fit in the first round—not due to lack of strong candidates, but because we're looking for someone whose expertise matches a specific project. More details in the job ad. Apply! tinyurl.com/2uskxyrp

Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Michigan State University is hiring a new Director of our herbarium! This is an open rank, tenure-stream faculty position, with research focus in plant or fungal systematics, ecology, and/or evolution Please consider applying and help spread the word! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

Please share — Michigan State Plant Biology is searching for an Herbarium Director! Tenure stream, open rank faculty position balancing research, teaching, service, and admin responsibilities. Join us! Reach out to me or @emjo.bsky.social with questions! plantbiology.natsci.msu.edu/job-postings...

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

First copies of my book are here!! As a new faculty member, I realized that in addition to my research job, I also had a leadership job…and I wasn’t prepared for that. This book is the guide I wish I’d had then, with the goal of helping others now.   jenheemstra.com/book

A big congratulations to Dr. Ethan Abercrombie on his PhD defense! 🎉

A collage of research-team shirts from the Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center (2014-2025) 🌳 #ForestEcology #TysonResearchCenter

Herbarium director position opening at Oregon State University ‪@osu-herbarium.bsky.social‬ Great opportunity for herbarium- and field-trained botanists at any rank. bpp.oregonstate.edu/bpp/about/op...

✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025

A big congratulations to Dr. Anna Wassel on her PhD defense! 🎉

Shout-out to Hans Reijnen for beautiful footage of the @gdfcf.bsky.social, and the EduMedia department @w-u-r.bsky.social who did an amazing job creating a virtual tropical soil environment! Feel free to use to inspire your students! #ecology #roots #tropicalforest #costarica #tdf

Congratulations to Sarah Swiston for winning the @asn-amnat.bsky.social Student Poster Award at #Evol2025 for her poster "EMPIRE: The ellipse model for phylogenetic inference of range evolution"

A great start to the field season - Forest Biodiversity Team, Tyson Research Center, Summer 2025 🌳 🔥 🌱 #ForestEcology #FireEcology #ForestGEO #TysonResearchCenter

Please share! JOIN THE LAB! We are looking to recruit a motivated reserach technician to assist with field research on restoration and lidar data collection in #longleaf pine at the beautiful @thejonesctr.bsky.social Apps due July 6 jonesctr.org/wp-content/u...

Trilobite fossil - Mount Stephen Fossil Beds - The Burgess Shale, Yoho National Park, Canada

I'm hiring a postdoc! Themes: long-term data, plant reproduction, mast seeding, synthesis, macosystems biology. Also, reproducible tesearch. Target submission deadline: 22 June (for priority review). 1-2 year position, $60K/year. 🌲 🌲 🌲 www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Check out this excellent Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) podcast interview with Lyle Usdin—a recent Environmental Biology graduate @washu.bsky.social & member of our research team—featuring his reflections on the OTS African Ecology & Conservation course 🐘 open.spotify.com/episode/3o50...

A big thanks to the organizers, group leaders, and participants of the second-annual Amphibian & Reptile Count for a great field experience at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica 🦎 🐍 📸 credit: Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET) / Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)

Happy to be back at La Selva for an Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) institutional-representative workshop. My last visit was over 20 years ago as a graduate student in the OTS fundamentals course (Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach)🌴 📸 credit: Kyle Harms

Just sharing an idea for a lab meeting. Last week I asked everyone to select and present a paper from PLOS '10 simple rules' series. There are 100s of topics available. We discussed rules for good leadership, getting grants, data handling etc. It worked quite well! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Want to understand grasslands? Look at the bigger picture Great writeup of @chriscatano.bsky.social's recent paper showing how arrival rates of individuals and species alter community assembly locally, influencing diversity patterns over time and across scales natsci.msu.edu/news/2025-05...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

A big thanks to Marko Spasojevic @m-j-spasojevic.bsky.social for hosting me for a seminar visit at UCR and a great day visiting field sites at the San Jacinto Forest Dynamics Plot (San Jacinto Mountains) and the Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center (Colorado Desert) ⛰️ 🌳 🌵

I'm excited to share a new paper, led by Marta Jarzyna and Leo Ohyama, on regional species pools-- a fundamental concept in ecology and biogeography that is poorly defined and understood, but which is essential for understanding and protecting biodiversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us July 27th the day before #Botany2025 for a free phylogenetic biogeography workshop in RevBayes! Taught by @landismj.bsky.social +Sarah Swiston (WUSTL), Felipe Zapata (UCLA), and myself, with surprise guests! Details: www.botanyconference.org/workshops/wo...

After 6 long years, lots of ups and downs, and being far from family, I’m defending my PhD thesis on May 6 at 12:00pm CT - just 16 days away! Still a bit to go, but wanted to share. De Puerto Tejada y Cali para el mundo.

Interested in integrating art and biology at the university level? Feel free to join this free online symposium!

"During a time of tremendous environmental fear and uncertainty, we have found, to our immeasurable relief, our master teacher," writes Elizabeth Gilbert of Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Congrats to David Henderson & the Madidi Metabolomics Project team on this new paper exploring the chemical ecology of tropical tree communities 🌴 in the Andes ⛰️ @mobotgarden.bsky.social @washu.bsky.social @utaustin.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social #UMSL 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecy....